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Roaring 20s/Great Depression Review
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1
What was the New Deal?
The government buying oil companies
Hoover's plan to fix the economy
A new labor union
FDR's programs to fix the Great Depression
2
Which was NOT a factor that led to the Great Depression?
Overuse of consumer credit
Buying Stocks on Margin
Stock over-speculation
America becoming communist
3
What was the illegal smuggling and selling of alcohol called during Prohibition?
Hatheading
Bootlegging
Glovehanding
Booze Bartering
4
Why did Black people leave the South during the Great Migration?
There was no housing in the South.
There wasn't racism in the North.
Less Jim Crow and more jobs.
Better weather up north.
5
How did the US Depression affect the world?
It only hurt Germany.
It helped trade between nations.
It caused a worldwide depression.
It helped American manufacturing.
6
How were average Americans able to afford the new luxury products marketed in the 1920s?
Cash from bootlegging
Buying on credit
Burglary and theft
Everyone had lots of savings
7
What was the main tactic used by the Ku Klux Klan to enforce white supremacy?
Chatting with locals
Election rigging
Terrorizing Blacks and immigrants
Making speeches
8
What was the major environmental crisis of the 1930s called?
Global Warming
The Dust Bowl
The Grapes of Wrath
The Great Floods
9
What New Deal program created a regulatory agency to police the stock market for unethical behavior?
CCC
FDIC
SEC
WPA
10
What New Deal program insures bank deposits of all account holders for up to $250,000?
WPA
SEC
CCC
FDIC
11
What was a Hooverville?
A Depression-era shantytown
A rich suburb
Hoover's hometown
Public Housing
12
What New Deal program provided direct payments to retired Americans?
NLRB
SSA
FWP
NIRA
13
What is consumerism?
Consuming social media
Eating as much as you can
Buying products to make life easier
The customer is always right!
14
Who opposed the New Deal for expanding government spending too much?
Alf Landon
Winston Churchill
Huey Long
Father Charles Coughlin
15
Why was President Hoover so unpopular?
He sold Alaska to pay the national debt.
He was very rude.
He increased the national debt.
He did little to stop the Depression.
